Development and validation of a machine learning-based model to predict survival in patients with cirrhosis after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shuntResearch in context by Binlin Da, Huan Chen, Wei Wu, Wuhua Guo, Anru Zhou, Qin Yin, Jun Gao, Junhui Chen, Jiangqiang Xiao, Lei Wang, Ming Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuge, Feng Zhang

“…The random forest (RF) model was built using 7 selected features via the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression, and subsequent 10-fold cross-validation was performed. Findings: A total of 400 patients in our cohort were included (median age and interquartile range, 59 (50, 66); 240 men). …”
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Longitudinal association between DNA methylation and type 2 diabetes: findings from the KORA F4/FF4 study by Liye Lai, Dave Laurence Juntilla, Monica Del, Monica Del C Gomez-Alonso, Harald Grallert, Barbara Thorand, Aiman Farzeen, Wolfgang Rathmann, Juliane Winkelmann, Holger Prokisch, Christian Gieger, Christian Herder, Annette Peters, Melanie Waldenberger

“…However, most studies for epigenome-wide associations between T2D and DNA methylation comes from cross-sectional design. Few large-scale investigations have explored these associations longitudinally over multiple time-points. …”
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IFN-<inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>τ</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> Maintains Immune Tolerance by Promoting M2 Macrophage Polarization... by Xinyu Feng, Cheng Yang, Ting Wang, Jinxin Zhang, Han Zhou, Bin Ma, Ming Xu, Ganzhen Deng

“…Causing, the wide range of cross-species activities of IFN-<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>τ</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, therefore we established a pregnant mouse model for the future confirmation of the above mechanism. …”
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Inter-pregnancy interval and uterine rupture during a trial of labour after one previous caesarean delivery and no previous vaginal births: a retrospective population-based cohort... by Pejman Adily, Travis Bettison, Mark Lauer, Rajit Narayan, Adam Mackie, Hala Phipps, Vincenzo Berghella, Marjan M. Haghighi, Katelyn Perren, George Johnson, Bradley de Vries

“…Counselling should advise that for women choosing between a planned TOLAC or a planned caesarean delivery after one previous caesarean delivery and no previous vaginal births waiting until 21 months or longer after a prior low transverse caesarean delivery might minimise the risk of uterine rupture. …”
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Associations between milk infrared-predicted plasma biomarkers of stress resilience and fertility in dairy cattle: Insights for enhancing breeding programs and herd management by Alessio Cecchinato, Hugo Toledo-Alvarado, Lucio Flavio Macedo Mota, Vittoria Bisutti, Erminio Trevisi, Riccardo Negrini, Sara Pegolo, Stefano Schiavon, Luigi Gallo, Giovanni Bittante, Diana Giannuzzi

“…A gradient boosting machine approach with leave-one-batch-out cross-validation (R2 range from 0.45 to 0.82) was implemented to an independent calibration database of 1,367 lactating cows reared in 5 herds. …”
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Evaluation of long‐acting cabotegravir safety and pharmacokinetics in pregnant women in eastern and southern Africa: a secondary analysis of HPTN 084 by Sinead Delany‐Moretlwe, Brett Hanscom, Xu Guo, Clemensia Nkabiito, Patricia Mandima, Patricia Ntege Nahirya, Juliet Mpendo, Muchaneta Bhondai‐Mhuri, Nyaradzo Mgodi, Rebecca Berhanu, Jennifer Farrior, Estelle Piwowar‐Manning, Susan L. Ford, Craig W. Hendrix, Alex R. Rinehart, James F. Rooney, Adeola Adeyeye, Raphael J. Landovitz, Myron S. Cohen, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Mark A. Marzinke, the HPTN 084 Study Team

“…Ongoing studies will examine the safety and pharmacology of CAB‐LA in women who choose to continue CAB‐LA through pregnancy and lactation.…”
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La gestion de l’eau à Bibracte (Saône-et-Loire), avant et après la Conquête romaine by Laetitia Borau

“…From this entrance a 2-km-long road crossed the site from the north to the south. The site was occupied between the end of the 2nd c. …”
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Evolución del paciente hospitalizado con gripe durante 2016–2020 según su estado vacunal by Jacobo Martín Ramos, Francisco Javier Cuevas Fernández, Álvaro Torres Lana, Armando Aguirre Jaime

“…The objective of this study is to quantify the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in patients hospitalized for influenza to prevent its evolution to severity, considering other known factors that influence such severity. Methods: Cross-sectional study of the 2016–2017 to 2019–2020 influenza epidemiological seasons with patients hospitalized at the Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria University Hospital in Tenerife diagnosed with influenza. …”
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Identifying pre-diabetes ‘hotspots’ in Northern California using geospatial analysis: opportunities to target diabetes prevention strategies and improve health equity by Tannaz Moin, Luis A Rodriguez, Obidiugwu Kenrik Duru, Julie Schmittdiel, Tainayah W Thomas, Maher Yassin, Yelba Castellon-Lopez

“…A ‘hotspot’ is defined as a cluster of 3 or more neighbouring census tracts with elevated pre-diabetes prevalence.Design A cross-sectional study using ArcGIS software to geospatially map pre-diabetes prevalence hotspots. …”
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The South African guidelines on enuresis: 2024 update by A Adam, A Badenhorst, F Claassen, T de Maayer, M Fockema, J Fredericks, E Gottlich, J John, N Lala, J Lazarus, S Leahy, H N Lourens, S Maharaj, K M Mathabe, E M Moshokoa, S B A Mutambirwa, K L Petersen, M B Radzuma, A van der Merwe, I van Heerden, C A Zietsman, F Alyami, A Deshpande, G H H Smith

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L’aqueduc de Fontanières : un cinquième aqueduc romain à Lyon ? by Jean-Yves Barbier

“…It could have drawn water from hillside springs, such as those along the Fournache slopes below the town of Sainte-Foy, and collected it through the Balme cave in a buried canal, whose cross-section measures just 0.43 m less wide than that of the Mont d’Or aqueduct, though their configuration is otherwise quite similar, except for its covering, which was not found in the case of Fontanières. …”
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Application of lacrimal gland ultrasonography in the evaluation of chronic ocular graft-versus-host-disease by Mingxia Zhong, Siyuan Liu, Jinghan Luo, Qin Zhang, Zhou Yang, Shanshan Zhang

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the effectiveness of lacrimal gland ultrasonography in the assessment of chronic ocular graft-versus-host-disease (oGVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) and to establish the correlation between the ocular surface and ultrasonographic results.MethodThe cross-sectional study included 57 participants aged 18 and older, who were at least 100 days after allo-HSCT. …”
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Special issue: Proceedings of the 15th ISIC - The Information Behaviour Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, August 26-29, 2024

“…Preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study of online medical consultation Siqi Luo, Hongyi Qin, Hanlin Li, Cui Huang Mapping the road ahead: understanding social factors that shape vehicle residents’ information grounds Kaitlin E. …”
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A Study on the Yield Stability of Oilseed Sunflower Genotypes under Drought Stress by Nasrin Akbari, Reza Darvishzadeh

“…Thus, if parametric methods are more capable of evaluating the interaction effects of the genotype × environment and analysis of stability, non-parametric methods have a higher ability to analyze non-crossed interactions. However, it seems that the purpose of the plant breeder and the size of the studied sample are decisive in the superiority of these statistics. …”
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Age-related changes in brain signal variability in autism spectrum disorder by Priyanka Sigar, Nicholas Kathrein, Elijah Gragas, Lauren Kupis, Lucina Q. Uddin, Jason S. Nomi

“…Methods We conducted a cross-sectional examination of resting-state BSV and its relationship with age and RRBs in a cohort of individuals with Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (n = 351) and typically developing (TD) individuals (n = 402) aged 5–50 years obtained from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange. …”
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Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio

“…Health and social care workers were frontline workers not only because of their closeness to the virus, but because of the distress and moral dilemmas they faced while seeing people die in isolation or having to choose between one respirator, and too many patients. …”
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Comparative analysis of clinical efficacy of unilateral biportal endoscopic and open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in the treatment of lumbar degenerative by Tao Ma, Xiaoshuang Tu, Junyang Li, Yongcun Geng, Yongcun Geng, Jingwei Wu, Senlin Chen, Dengming Yan, Dengming Yan, Ming Jiang, Ming Jiang, Gongming Gao, Luming Nong

“…MRI at 1 year postoperatively was used to manually trace the cross-sectional area of the paraspinal muscles to compare muscle atrophy.ResultsA total of 150 patients were included in the study, with 71 patients in the ULIF group and 79 patients in the TLIF group. …”
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The analysis of gene co-expression network and immune infiltration revealed biomarkers between triple-negative and non-triple negative breast cancer by Yao Yi, Yao Yi, Yu Zhong, Yu Zhong, Lianhua Xie, Lianhua Xie, Shuxian Lu, Shuxian Lu, Yifeng Zhang, Yifeng Zhang

“…The diagnostic potential of these key genes was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis with three-fold cross-validation. Furthermore, to gain insights into the prognostic implications of these key genes, we performed relapse-free survival (RFS) analysis using the Kaplan-Meier plotter online tool. …”
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Myocarditis and neutrophil-mediated vascular leakage but not cytokine storm associated with fatal murine leptospirosisResearch in context by Stylianos Papadopoulos, David Hardy, Frédérique Vernel-Pauillac, Magali Tichit, Ivo G. Boneca, Catherine Werts

“…Our findings confirm the ineffective control of infection by neutrophils and highlight their deleterious role in vascular permeability, previously only attributed to the ability of leptospires to damage and cross endothelial junctions.Finally, the identification of death due to myocarditis rather than kidney, liver or liver failure may reflect an overlooked but common symptom associated with poor prognosis in human leptospirosis.These features of neutrophilia and myocarditis are also seen in patients, making this mouse model a paradigm for better understanding human leptospirosis and designing new therapeutic strategies. …”
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Spare Parts Inventory Optimization for Military Vehicles Using a Mixed Probability Distribution by Mojtaba Salehi, Mojtaba Omidvar, Shohreh Shariati

“…Research limitations: This research was conducted on a case-by-case basis on the parts of military vehicles of the 177th brigade of Torbat Heydarieh city, so it should be possible to generalize it to other organizations, and because it was typically a cross-sectional study, conclusions about on the causality might seem difficult. …”
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